Page 59 of Bullied Forced Omega
I guess the worst-case scenario is that they don’t get along and it's stiff and formal, but at least I would have opened the path for them to communicate outside of pack business or daily tasks.
I sip my hot chocolate, then glance at the time on my phone. Thirty minutes.
Jace will be home any minute now from training, and thirty minutes later, Jeremy arrives.Did I give him enough time to get ready for dinner? Yes, stop worrying. He’s usually ready within fifteen minutes after taking a quick shower and changing his clothes.
My stomach knots a little tighter.
It’s ok. You made a good choice. It’ll be good for them to spend time together away from the other elders, away from everything else.
“The sky is angry this evening,” Jace says, catching me by surprise.
“She’s not angry, she’s expressive,” I smile, standing up to greet him. He slips his arm around my waist and hugs me. Then steals the hot chocolate from right out of my hand and takes a big sip. He grins mischievously, handing it back to me. “It smelled too good to resist,” he chuckles.
“Jace…” I hurry after him into the house, ignoring the butterflies in my chest, so I can tell him his father is coming for dinner.
“Don’t worry. I’m getting in the shower right away. I’ll be ready before they get here,” he smiles, glancing over his shoulder at me.
“Huh?” I blurt out, confused as hell.
Firstly, how did he know? And secondly, who arethey?
He turns to look at me, amused by my expression.
“I am the Alpha. And that means there are no secrets in this pack. Someone always knows something,” he laughs.
“You know about dinner?” I sigh, relieved that he isn’t angry.
“I know about dinner. It was a good idea, and I appreciate you doing this for me,” he says, cupping his hand below my chin to tilt my head up. “Thank you, Mira,” he says gently.
He turns away, heading for the shower. “By the way,” he calls out from the other room. “Miles is coming too.”
“What?!” I blurt out, storming into the room. He’s already half undressed, and I have come to a stammering halt, tripping over my feet, my words, and my thoughts as my eyes do their best not to devour every inch of him like a pervert.
“What, what?” he laughs.
“Why would you invite Miles?” I ask, looking everywhere else but at him.
He carries on stripping his clothes off as though there is zero awkwardness in the room, despite my cheeks glowing poker hot red.
“I assume you invited my father because you figured we might need to work on the past, and how we’ve drifted apart. Rekindle that old connection. Get to know my family again… all that?”
“Well…yes…” I agree, no longer even trying to avoid staring at his gorgeous, divine nakedness.
“Well… I invited Miles for the same reason,” he grins, then spins away and walks into the bathroom before I can say another word.
In silence and disbelief, I stand in the bedroom with my mouth gaping open and my thoughts in a jumble. I want to argue with Jace, but I can’t. Miles and I are family, and we drifted apart years and years ago. Pretty much when my parents died. Which means he’s ever felt like a brother to me. He lived a life that was so different from mine, his status ranking him far above me and providing him with luxuries I couldn’t even dream of.
But I don’t have anything to confront him about. Nothing to say to him. There is no relationship to heal.
Brother. Family.
Mika argues wordlessly with me, and I roll my eyes.
Fine, yes, brother. But what does that even mean?I huff back at her.
Regardless. This is happening whether I’m ready for it or not, and the dinner has just gotten times more awkward. And I'd better call in and order another pizza. A whole extra wolf at our table, especially one as hungry as Miles, there has to be enough food.
Jace, Jeremy, Miles, and I sit around the little wooden dinner table near the glass patio doors in my cozy cottage.
